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The Old World Blues intro starts with a blank slide, reading Fallout: New Vegas. The words Old World Blues slowly fade into view at the bottom. The narration kicks in while several slides are shown about the history of Big Mountain.
Slides[]
Narrated by Doctor Mobius.
# | Slide | Voice-over narration |
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1 | None. | |
2 | None. | |
3 | In the years before the Great War, Big Mountain had been the home to the brightest minds of the 21st century. | |
4 | Scientists of vision were drawn to the facility to tackle the greatest technological challenges of the era. | |
5 | They sought to create a new world, fueled by technology, for the benefit of all mankind. | |
6 | Sonic emitters, space age alloys, DNA hybridization, force field particle research, Auto-Doc advances in cranial, cardiac, and trauma surgery... the hopes and dreams of a century became realities in the electronic forges of Big Mountain. | |
7 | The nucleus of this research was the Dome, a huge stone facility that held the labs of every science known to man. It was a think tank where no problem could not be solved, where no question could not be answered. | |
8 | The Great War brought a new energy to Big Mountain and its scientists. | |
9 | Although sheltered from the frontlines, the scientists waged their own war, fighting their battles at the atomic level. | |
10 | Equations and calculations marched endlessly across chalkboards and computer terminals toward one solution: Winning the war. | |
11 | For years, the minds and computers of Big Mountain were a blaze of trajectories, weapon schematics, and nuclear theories. | |
12 | The problems began to outpace the solutions, first geometrically, then exponentially. As the war escalated, so did the questions. | |
13 | On the night of October 23rd, 2077, the scientists received an answer that put all their questions to rest. | |
14 | In the aftermath, Big Mountain's silent experiments went to sleep, their creators slowly dying in the new world that had been left behind. | |
15 | And the great stone in the middle of the Big Empty lay untouched, filled with countless technological wonders... Wonders that, in the end, had been answers to the wrong question. |